Relatable content from The Times

Well, the 4D chess version of events here would be someone leaked the OBR forecast as part of an effort to get it abolished.

The cockup version (usually the accurate one) would be this is the mother of all fuckups, and could be existential. This is the most market sensitive budget stuff imaginable.

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

Downing Street cabinet read out on Gaza:

Map of railway lines in UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, with various pins in the map too

Right

The 6️⃣0️⃣ stations I investigated during my #CrossChannelRail project have now all been mapped out and categorized

Interactive map 👇
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Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Hundreds of tractors are seen 6-7 wide across Whitehall and the line stretches as far as you can see along the road. Some tractors have Union Jacks on the roof. The photo was shared by Edward Morello MP

UK farmers have blocked the streets of central London today in protest at the Labour government’s tax plans.

(📸 Edward Morello MP)

US farmers ‘prepare for the worst’ in new Trump trade war President’s latest tariff threats have sparked alarm in Republican breadbasket states such as Iowa

In Iowa hebben ze kennelijk een brexittijdreismachine neergezet www.ft.com/content/bed7...

"what are you in for?"

"murder, what are you in for?"

"saying Liz Truss crashed the economy"

I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.

1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on:
- what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve;
- the options on the table; and
- why this shit is hard.

This will be very long. I'm sorry.

Let's get wonky.